Union garment



Patented Dec. 6, I898.

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No. 6I5,632. Patented 'Dec. 6, I898. 6. (VB. 000K.

UNION GARMENT.

(Application flle d Apr. 18, 1898) Modem 2 Shoots-Sheet 2.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GERALDINE OBRIEN COOK, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

UNION GARMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 615,632, dated December6, 1898.

Application filed April 13, 1898. Serial No. 677,446. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERALDINE OBRIEN 000K, of Boston, county of Sufiolk,and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in UnionGarments, of which the following description, in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawingsrepresenting like parts.

This invention is intended to be an improvement 011 the garment shownand described in United States Patent No. 505,953, granted to me October3, 1893.

The garment to be herein described has been designed for use by men. Inthe garment described in said patent each back-flap had a smalltriangular gore extended from it at that edge which was connected withthe front part of the leg, said gore starting from the flap at aconsiderable distance from its upper end and at a point where the flapwas of its greatest diameter. The trouble with the flap and itsprojecting gore was that it failed in use, owing to its shape, to forman effectual covering for the part of the body that it was intended tocover. I have in this present invention so shaped the gore that itoverlaps'and forms an effectual covering for the person wearing thegarment, so that whenthe garment is being worn all parts of the personare fully covered.

As I have herein chosen to illustrate my invention both flaps are unitedin one piece, and the base of the gore starts out from the flap at apoint between its selvage edges, and the inner edge of each half of theflap from the point at which said gore starts out from the body of theflap has a selvage edge, which is carried out beyond the point of theflap, such excess of width in the flap from the base of the gore to itsend where it is united in the back of the garment providingalarge amountof overlap, which cannot be strained apart in wearing the garment.

Figure 1, in front elevation, shows 'a mans union garment embodyingmyinvention; Fig. 2, a rear side view of the same. Fig. 3 shows theimproved flap detached and overlapped in the condition it will occupywhen being put into the back of the garment, and Fig. 4 shows the flapspread to remove the overlap and better show its shape.

being run off the needles.

The body A, the connected bifurcated legs B, and the sleeves G are andmay be of any usual construction-such as shown, for instance, in UnitedStates Patent No. 527,216, dated October 9, 1894, or No. 594,647, datedNovember 30, 1897-and in practice the upper ends 01 of the back-flap Dmay or will be put into the back of the garment as provided for ineither of said patents, to thereby insure fullness at and across thehips of the wearer.

The back-flap shown in this my invention has been especially devised toform a more complete closure of the garment when being worn. In theproduction of this back-flap the knitting will preferably be started atthe end (Z, and it will be gradually widened from d to d, leavingselvage edges, and from d to 01 each half or leg of the back-flap willpreferably be knitted of the same width, and thereafter what is toconstitute the overlap ping edge of the back-flap is narrowed down tothe point 01 and some of the loops at that edge are thrown off theneedles say about fifteen needles. Let it be supposed that thisoperation has been carried on for one half or leg of the back-flap andthat the part so far formed is left hanging on the needles. Now thesecond half or leg of the back-flap is set up on the remaining needlesand is knitted down to the line 01 as before described. The knitting isnow resumed in the two lines 01 C1 and it may be carried down of uniformwidth to the line 61 and then the two parts so being knitted may benarrowed at their inner edges, leaving tapered selvages d the fabricAfter this the loops between 01 and 0?, previously thrown oif, are againset up on the needles and the gore g is knitted. When a back-flap ofthis shape is put into the garment, the inner edges 6 of the widest partof the flap overlap for a great distance, said overlapping commencingsubstantially at the point 61 whereas in the Patent- No. 505,953,referred to, each half of the back-flap is not wider at any pointbetween the junction of the gore with the body of the flap and the upperpart of the flap where it is joined into the back of the garment.

The part of the flap between the edges 6 and the dotted lines 6 Fig.4,shows the additions to the flap and its new shape to insure fullcovering. The tapered gore g is shorter than the two lower ends b of thebaclcflap, and said gore, when the back-flap is put into the garment andmade a part thereof, is carried under the crotch to the front of thegarment, as in Fig. 1, and these edges are united by stitches it intothe leg at the front of the garment near the bottom of the opening slit,which is open when the garment is being put 011.

Having fully described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, .is

1. A union garment having aback-flap provided between its lower pointedends with a pointed gore g, the two parts of said flap between the pointof said gore and its upper end which is joined into the back of thegarment being widened at their inner edges as e to constitute abroadoverlap, said pointed gore g being carried forward under the crotch anddirected upward and attached at its side edges to a part of the front ofeach leg, substantially as described.

2. A union garment composed of a body, bifurcated connected legs, and anoverlapping back-flap connected with the back of the garment and carriedunder the crotch and united to the legs of the garment below thewaist-line at back and front, said back-flap presenting a gore g at itslower end, both parts of said back-flap at its inner edges from the baseof said gore upwardly toward the upper end of the back-flap beingwidened to constitute a wide overlap for the back-flap and preclude anypossible gapping and uncovering of the body when the said garment is inuse, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

GERALDINE OBRIEN COOK.

Vitnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, EMMA J. BENNETT.

